SUMMARY: Terminal activity timeout

From: Peter Schauss x 2014 (ps4330@okc01.rb.jccbi.gov)
Date: Tue Jan 14 1997 - 11:59:46 CST

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Thanks for the quick resposes.

My original post was:

> Is there a way to force terminals to log out if they have been
> inactive for a specified length of time?
>
> Environment is Solaris 2.4 on a SPARC5.

Repsonses were:

From: Rasana Atreya <atreya@library.ucsf.edu>

To automatically log a user out after idle time of XXX seconds-
vi .profile add TMOUT =XXX in seconds then export TMOUT

Rasana

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>

Yes. Do an archie search for the software package "untamo".

Cheers,
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@itw.com

From: "Matthew Stier" <Matthew.Stier@MCI.Com>
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Try using 'idled'.

-- Matthew Stier matthew.stier@mci.com

The TMOUT environment variable looks like the simplest solution.

Thanks again to everyone who replied.

Peter Schauss ps4330@okc01.rb.jccbi.gov Gull Electronic Systems Division Parker Hannifin Corporation Smithtown, NY

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